Alien Plot-holes

[PeterTHX]

Originally Posted by s2mikey

Bingo. Remember, these are essentially bugs. As Ash so eloquently stated they dont have many thought processes or "delusions of morality". They just propogate the species and eat and then die. Like most bugs. They dont reason, they dont have meetings to plan out all this crap, and they dont create power point presentations on their laptops to figure out a game plan on how to get on the Sulaco and plant eggs.

Sure, in the first film, the Alien did get into the shuttle and that would require some thought perhaps. But, thats a far cry from eggs growing out of the framework of the Sulaco. Like you said - the scriptwriters couldnt come up with anything else so "poof" you've got an egg on board.

Maybe they should have let the comic book writers do the script?

The ONLY thing I can come up with (thanks to some stretches of logic and the "easter egg" sound effect of a facehugger scrabbling across the ground at the end of ALIENS' end titles is that when Ripley blew up the nest some facehuggers were forced out on the ground and hitched a ride on the queen when she left the nest (like the parasites on the Cloverfield monster). They dropped off while she was hiding inside the dropship on the way back to the Sulaco.